Framed

Last month I came upon a Memory Box Challenge. I was delighted to find it as I have loads of Memory Box dies ...they are one of my very favourite manufacturers of dies. I was fortunate enough to have the card I entered chosen as the winner! and I was naturally simply thrilled. This month the challenge is to include a frame of some sort. 

For my card I used a piece of card which I had smooshed with Inka Gold and some distress inks and cut with the Memory Box base Layer of Christmas trees. I used gold card for the outline of the trees and the sentiment. I cut the front panel with SSS stitched rectangle dies to make the frame.

I'm not sure of the make of the sentiment die, (I keep my dies on magnetic sheets in box files and the packaging is stored away elsewhere.) I chose it because I fancied one which began with a capital letter and was not too overpowering for the delicacy of the trees.

I dry embossed a little piece of card with a snow folder from Sheena Douglass to pop behind the trees.

Outside the Box

My second card today is also framed but in a slightly different way... this one has a dry embossed frame around the 4 inchies.

The challenge at CAS Mix Up is to use inchies. 

I don't remember making any inchies before despite having owned this Inkadinkadoo stamp set for several years! I think I picked it up in a Michael's somewhere or other on one of our trips to the USA.

I dug out a piece of card with some failed acrylic pouring on it, which looked dreadful, but I saved it anyway!

I stamped the inchies onto selected bits of this card and clear embossed them, before cutting out with a Sizzix die, It is actually a 3 squares die, but I just used an end one each time to cut them out. Once cut, I triple clear embossed them to make them into tiny tiles, then mounted them onto a black square.

The sentiment, embossed in white, is from Sugar Peas Designs.

I don't feel that this card was my finest hour so I will be trying again very soon!

Pink & Grey

The colour combination for the challenge at Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge is Pink & Grey!

I love this mix and in fact it was the exact thing I chose for the very first challenge at "Less is More" when I created that challenge way back in 2011.

Here I chose to use dies by Alexandra Renke and coloured the cherry blossom with watercolours. The sentiment is by Altenew. The plain grey panel looked a little flat so I embossed it with a texture plate from Papertrey Ink. It's really quite a subtle effect, but I rather like it.

Colour challenges are fun... and this is such a lovely combo, so why not join in with your CAS creation!

Animal friends

Here we have a couple of images from Artemio, stamped and clear embossed before colouring with Copics, then cutting out. I put them onto a background of grass made on glossy paper using alcohol inks. I simply cut the top border with a grass die (not sure of the make). The sentiment is from Altenew.

It's for the challenge at AAA cards.

 

Hello again

I don't know if anyone else does this, but if I have dug out a stamp or die that I haven't used for a while, I often use it a second or even a third time. So here is the Winnie & Walter HELLO die in evidence once more . This time complemented with a few other die cuts. The flowers from Alexandra Renke were coloured with Distress Inks and I just happened to have a piece of pink card which matched perfectly, which I layered and used for the hello.I was going to put the pink layer beneath the white ones but rather liked the boldness of it on top. There is a pink layer under the white in the word beautiful, which can be glimpsed from some angles.

This i loosely based on the sketch from Colours And Sketches. 

I used the bunch of flowers and the hello as the two overlapping elements.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge  - Anything Goes